Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Detroit's Twelfth Street was tranquil. Newark's Springfield Avenue was nearly deserted. While a ghetto battle raged in Cleveland (see following story), the anniversary of two of the worst riots in American history went virtually unnoticed. But if the ashes of Detroit and Newark have grown cold, the emotions they raised clearly have not. Law and order now looms as the No. 1 issue of 1968, even overshadowing a war that keeps more than 500,000 American servicemen in combat in Southeast Asia...
...Beginning. Even as the plotted attack on police in Cleveland was increasing white apprehension about law and order all over the country, it seemed to be inspiring black militants to a higher level of bombast. Said Eldridge Cleaver, a leader of Oakland's Black Panthers and author of Soul on Ice, a compendium of bitter autobiographical essays: "It shows that psychologically blacks are not only prepared to die but to kill." Added Stokely Carmichael: "We are only at the beginning of a revolution-the armed stage. We must create the maximum damage with a minimum loss of black people...
...warm things up a few degrees. Soviet military intervention in Czechoslovakia would once again seriously chill the diplomatic atmosphere. It was Russian tanks in Budapest, in fact, that abruptly froze a momentary thaw in 1956. The difficult balance between deep-freeze and detente can be frustrating, says Harlan Cleveland, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, since it offers none of "the clarities of either unambiguous war or unalloyed peace." But, troubling as the ambiguities of Honolulu and Prague may be, they are obviously preferable to the cataclysmic clarity that a conflict between the superpowers would afford...
...only seven years ago that Warren Spahn topped all National League hurlers with an earned-run average of 3.01; this year there are 69 pitchers with lower ERAs than that. Three pitchers-Detroit's Denny McLain (record: 17-2), San Francisco's Juan Marichal (15-4) and Cleveland's Luis Tiant (14-5)-all have a shot at winning 30 games, a feat last accomplished by Dizzy Dean in 1934. Tiant, the All-Star game loser, has an incredible ERA of 1.24; the All-Star winner, Los Angeles' Don Drysdale, is only a few points...
Eventually Stokes got the volume he wanted, but for Hubert Humphrey, looking ahead more to November than to August, the cajolery in Cleveland was all too typical of the reception he has been getting across the country. Crowds have been slim nearly everywhere, and sometimes hecklers and protesters seem to outnumber supporters. Philadelphia police estimated that 20,000 people heard Humphrey's Fourth of July speech in front of Independence Hall, but newsmen reckoned that the true figure was closer...